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Implications of Bias in Automated Writing Quality Scores for Fair and Equitable Assessment Decisions
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Direct linkMatta, Michael; Mercer, Sterett H.; Keller-Margulis, Milena A. – School Psychology, 2023
Recent advances in automated writing evaluation have enabled educators to use automated writing quality scores to improve assessment feasibility. However, there has been limited investigation of bias for automated writing quality scores with students from diverse racial or ethnic backgrounds. The use of biased scores could contribute to…
Descriptors: Bias, Automation, Writing Evaluation, Scoring
Implications of Bias in Automated Writing Quality Scores for Fair and Equitable Assessment Decisions
Download full textMichael Matta; Sterett H. Mercer; Milena A. Keller-Margulis – Grantee Submission, 2023
Recent advances in automated writing evaluation have enabled educators to use automated writing quality scores to improve assessment feasibility. However, there has been limited investigation of bias for automated writing quality scores with students from diverse racial or ethnic backgrounds. The use of biased scores could contribute to…
Descriptors: Bias, Automation, Writing Evaluation, Scoring
Dobbs, Christina L.; Kearns, Devin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Understanding academic vocabulary is essential to student success in school. Use of academic vocabulary words in writing is considered one of the strongest measures of how well a reader understands a given word. In theory, willingness to use academic vocabulary in writing indicates the complexity of acquiring representations of the word's…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Essays
Fu, Jianbin; Chung, Seunghee; Wise, Maxwell – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
The Cognitively Based Assessment of, for, and as Learning ("CBAL"™) research initiative is aimed at developing an innovative approach to K-12 assessment based on cognitive competency models. Because the choice of scoring and equating approaches depends on test dimensionality, the dimensional structure of CBAL tests must be understood.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Ability, Scoring, Grade 4
